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KEY BLOCK OF AN ARCH.
street to the Palazzo Marotta. (See Diagram No. 282, Fig. 2.) The longer axis of Don Antonio's house, stood
Fig. 282.
35° W. of north and south, and the S.E. gable and courtyard, with its demolished gateway, are seen in Photog. No. 278 (Coll. Roy. Soc.)[1] The east pier and all the blocks of stone of the elliptic arch above, had been thrown down, and lay as they fell. The general direction of wave-path that they gave, and more especially that given by the key blocks which had fallen, the most unperturbed in its course, was
- ↑ The key block here is that marked a. The round timber visible had been piled upon it, between the time of my examination, and that of the photograph being taken; and several of the other blocks appear to have been disturbed in the interval.
